Michelle Sovinsky is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, a research fellow of the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR), an associate of the University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute, and a research fellow of the Economics Network for Competition and Regulation.
Malte Sandner is Professor at the Technical University Nürnberg. He received his Ph.D. in economics the Leibniz University Hannover in 2013. His main research topic is the experimental evaluation of the "Pro Kind" home visiting program. Furthermore, he is interested in empirical education economics and family economics, with a particular focus on disadvantaged families.
Climent Quintana-Domeque (Barcelona, 1980) is Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter, a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn) and a network member of the Human Capital Economic Opportunity Family Inequality working group (Chicago). Climent received his Llicenciatura from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (first ranked in the class of 2002) and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University in 2008.
Professor Pollak's current research interests are the economics of the family and demography. Pollak is the author of numerous articles in professional journals and three books: From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States (1995, with J. Behrman and P. Taubman), Demand System Specification and Estimation (1992, with T. Wales), and The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index (1989). Pollak is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Econometric Society.
Juan Pantano is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Economics of Human Development. He was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Washington University in St.Louis. His research spans several areas in empirical microeconomics, with particular interest in family economics and the economics of fertility. He is a member of the American Economic Association, The Econometric Society and the Population Association of America.
Robert Moffitt is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, where he has worked since September 1995. Prior to assuming his position at Johns Hopkins, Professor Moffitt was Professor of Economics at Brown University, where he taught for eleven years. Professor Moffitt's research is on the economics of the labor market, the family, and welfare systems for the poor. He has also studied statistical, econometric, and methodological issues in economics and other social science research, including a focus on data quality issues. Dr.
Stefania Marcassa is an assistant professor at THEMA, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise (France). Her research interests lie in the economics of the family with special attention to female labor force participation, formation and dissolution of households, and family taxation.
Marcassa received her B.A. in Economics from Università degli Studi di Trento in 2001, a M.A. in Economics from Università Ca’ Foscari in 2003, and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2009.
Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is a Fellow and past President of the Society of Labor Economists and a Research Fellow at IZA. She is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Population Economics and a member of the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Review of Economics of the Household.
Clement Joubert joined the department of economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an assistant professor in 2010. His research interests include labor economics, pension economics and family economics. He has studied how pension system rules interact with labor market segmentation and gender inequality using dynamic models of human capital accumulation, occupational choice and savings structurally estimated on longitudinal survey and administrative data.
V. Joseph Hotz is the Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics at Duke University and a research associate of the Duke Population Research Institute. He specializes in the areas of labor economics, economics of the family, economic demography, applied econometrics, and evaluating the impact of social programs. For his contributions to his field, Professor Hotz has appeared on the list of Who's Who in America since 1993. He was also named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2003.
